66% Expect D.C. Politics To Become Even More Partisan
As Democrats and Republicans continue to fight over how much to cut federal spending, most voters expect politics inside the Beltway to become even more partisan in the months to come.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that two-out-of-three Likely U.S. Voters (66%) think politics in Washington, D.C. will be more partisan over the next year. That finding shows little change from last month but is the highest level measured in nearly a year of monthly tracking. The number of voters who believe politics will be more partisan has ranged from a low of 40% to a high of 70% since Barack Obama assumed office in January 2009.
Only 14% believe politics in D.C. will be more cooperative over the next year, while slightly more (20%) are not sure. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
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The survey of 1,000 Likely Voters was conducted on June 9, 2011 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.
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